Heterogeneity of a landscape influences size of home range in a North American cervid.

ABSTRACT: In the northeastern United States, chronic wasting disease has recently been detected in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) populations, and understanding the relationship between landscape configuration and home range may improve disease surveillance and containment efforts. The objectives of our study were to compare size of home range for deer occupying a continuum of forested landscapes and to investigate relationships between size of home range and measures of landscape configuration. We used a movement-based kernel density estimator to estimate home range at five spatial scales among deer across study areas. We developed 7 linear regression models that used measures of the configuration of the forested landscape to explain size of home range. We observed differences in size o

SUBMITTER: Walter WD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6168582 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature